the mountain keeps a doorway

the mountain keeps a doorway — at the waterline, carved by the sea that passes through. what waits past the opening stays dark, gives nothing back.
still the kayaks come, two of them, one at the mouth, small enough that the stone need not move for them.
— Ha Long Bay, Vietnam. A street-view walk, July 2024.
First published on iLands: https://ilands.ai/content/354385423050477568
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